INDECENT images, dangerous driving and sexual assault.
These are some of the crimes the people sentenced at Reading Crown Court last week committed.
Here’s what they did and how long they will serve.
Derek Thurlbeck
Derek Thurlbeck, a self-proclaimed ‘spiritual healer’ from High Wycombe, went to the Slough homes of four separate women and touched their genitals over their clothes while carrying out his practices.
Described by a ‘master manipulator’, he told one woman she was ‘cursed’ in a bid to convince her to get healed.
The 63-year-old offered spiritual healing to these women free of charge but when he carried out his practice he touched them in ways which were “inappropriate” and “unprofessional”, Her Honour Judge Real said.
Judge Real sentenced Thurlbeck to two years and six months in prison after he was convicted of five counts of sexual assault by a jury following a week-long trial earlier this year.
Lemarr Stevens
Stevens, from Slough, will spend up to 32 weeks in a youth detention centre after an eight-inch carving knife fell out of his waistband when police tackled him to the ground at Reading station in June.
The 19-year-old was approached by British Transport Police officers at the station as he seemed “agitated”.
According to prosecutor Victoria Lovett, police said he smelt like cannabis.
He walked away from police who then restrained him on the floor.
As he was wrestled to the ground, an eight-inch carving knife fell to the floor from Stevens’ waistband.
Judge Real sentenced Stevens after he admitted to possession of a bladed article.
Bradley Scott
Bradley Scott, from Reading, was banned from communicating with girls under the age of 16 following a previous conviction for child sexual abuse he received three years ago.
But the 20-year-old, who penetrated a 13-year-old girl when he was 17, met up with a 14-year-old girl just four days after his release from prison in May of this year.
This meant he had broken rules in his sexual harm prevention order.
Scott was sentenced to ten months in prison for three counts of breaching the order.
However, he will be eligible for release on licence after five months.
Having already served three months in prison since May, Scott is set to be released from jail in two months time.
Tony Bashki
Bashki, from Slough, avoided jail following his conviction for dangerous driving.
The 49-year-old received a 14 month prison sentence suspended for 19 months.
He was, however, told to undertake 19 session of a rehabilitation programme and take part in 25 rehabilitation activity requirement days.
Barry Gooden
Gooden, from Bracknell, was jailed for 22 months after being convicted of two counts of making indecent photos of children.
The 64-year-old was also told his phone would be destroyed and any equipment containing the indecent images would be forfeited too.
In addition, Gooden was handed a 10-year-sexual-harm-prevention order.
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